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For the great majority of Catholic history, a bishop owed his position to local laity, local clergy, local political authorities, regional bishops and/or the pope. Only recently has so much power been concentrated in Rome.

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David Stern

To mourn one victim of anti-Semitism and hate in America would be grief enough. To mourn 11 breaks the heart's bounds. And yet we somehow mourn even more than that. We mourn a sense of security. We mourn a sense of trust. We mourn our expectations of leadership, our assumptions of decency.